Company Recognized for Helping 400,000 Small Businesses
Collaborate to Manage IT
Spiceworks™,
Inc. today announced that it was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO
Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major
developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global
technology industries. Spiceworks was selected for the award by the
AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe,
based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential,
commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Spiceworks and the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies will be
honored at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford taking place at
Stanford University July 22-24, 2008. This two-and-a-half day executive
event highlights the significant economic, political and commercial
trends disrupting the global technology industries, and features the
most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors
and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private
company CEO and executive showcases. Fifty of the top CEOs and
executives from the AO Global 250 will present their market strategies
to a panel of industry experts in a “CEO
Showcase.” Jay Hallberg, co-founder and CMO of
Spiceworks, will present Wednesday, July 23 at 3:15pm in McCaw Hall.
“The AO Global 250 winners have excelled in
key strategic areas in the global technology markets,”
said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We
congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services
and platforms that are driving the next phase of innovation and creating
real value at an economically uncertain time.”
The AO Global 250 was selected from over hundreds of companies,
nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online technology,
media, entertainment, enterprise and greentech sectors from around the
world.
Spiceworks is the industry’s
first free collaborative IT management application for small and medium
businesses. The more than 400,000 Spiceworks users have access to a free
IT management application that allows them to automatically discover,
inventory, monitor, track, report on, troubleshoot and repair the
hardware and software running in a network. It also provides a built-in
help desk, remote control capability, and is the first business
application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features
directly into the workflow.
